Mitch Garnaat
Senior Engineer, Amazon

Mitch Garnaat is a Senior Engineer at Amazon Web Services. Previously, as a Principal Engineer at Xerox PARC he was the co-inventor and lead developer of DocuShare, a web-based document management product from Xerox. He is the creator of boto, an open source Python library for Amazon Web Services and is the author of “Python & AWS Cookbook”, published by O’Reilly.

More and more companies, large and small, are using open source software. Sometimes, in addition to just using the software they also want to try to support the development efforts. How hard could that be?
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